Nokia Workers Fight for Jobs in India

Amid Tax Dispute, the Factory Employees Rally in Bid to Keep Plant Open

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Dhanya Ann Thoppil in Bangalore and

R. Jai Krishna in New Delhi

April 1, 2014 2:00 p.m. ET

Nokia Corp.'s factory workers in India launched protests Monday, demanding their jobs be spared as an Indian tax claim against the Finnish phone maker threatens to exclude the employees' workplace from Nokia's asset sale to Microsoft Corp.

About 4,000 Nokia laborers gathered in Chennai, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, asking for help from the local government. Union members staged what they called a "hunger...